> American law doesn’t apply to someone running a server in Brussels.
Except when the one running and renting out the server is Microsoft, Amazon, or some other US entity and the Patriot Act exists.
Except when the one running and renting out the server is Microsoft, Amazon, or some other US entity and the Patriot Act exists.
I’d have a different opinion about my service if I were hosting my server on Hetzner in Helsinki. Since I’m not, I don’t.
I'd say that is rather very relevant.
The Patriot Act is the foremost frontier in the ongoing dispute about the so-called Privacy Shield.